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Nithard de Ponthieu abbot of St Riquier
- Preferred Name: Nithard de Ponthieu abbot of St Riquier[1] [2]
- Gender: M
- Clan Name: with note: Description: Carolingian Dynasty
- Burial: JUN 844 in Saint-Riquier Abbatiale, Saint-Riquier, Abbeville, Somme, Hauts-de-France, France
- Title+(Nobility): with note: Description: Abbé de Saint-Riquier
- FSID: GNQS-BR1
- Birth: ABT 795 in Crécy-en-Ponthieu, Abbeville, Somme, Hauts-de-France, France
- Death: 14 JUN 844 in Saint-Riquier, Abbeville, Somme, Hauts-de-France, France
- Nickname:
- Notes:
=== Life Sketch ===
NITHARD (before 800-killed in battle [against the Normans?] 15 May 845). Son of Angilbert & Bertha according to his own chronicle[524]. He and his brother were commemorated in a poem written by their father in 800[525]. Graf. He continued to live at court in Aix-la-Chapelle after his father’s death in 814. Lay-abbot of St Riquier. Historian. [m ERCHENFRIDA, daughter of ---. Heinrich Archbishop of Trier describes the boundaries of the parish of Mersch by charter dated 960, which includes details of property donations, among others that of "comite Nithado et coniuge eius Erkenfrida"[526]. As no other count Nithard has yet been identified in other sources dated to the 10th century. It is possible therefore that this source refers to a much earlier donation made by Nithard son of Angilbert.]
https://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/FRANKISH%20NOBILITY.htm#_ftnref504
Preferred Parents:
Father: Angilbert of Ponthieu, abbot of Saint-Riquier, b. 760 in Ponthieu, Thézillieu, Ain, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France d. 18 FEB 814 in Saint-Riquier, Abbeville, Somme, Hauts-de-France, France
Mother: Bertha DE NEUSTRIE de FRANCE, b. ABT 779 in Aachen, Stadtkreis Aachen, Kahn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland d. 14 JAN 823 in Ponthieu, Thézillieu, Ain, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
Family 1: Richarde DE FRANCIE de ROUEN, b. ABT 795 in Rouen, Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France
- Helgaud DE BOULOGNE De Ponthieu II de Montreuil Duke of Ponthieu, b. ABT 805 in Ponthieu, Thézillieu, Ain, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France d. 864 in Ponthieu, Thézillieu, Ain, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
Sources:
- Title: Hartnid - Medlands - FMG
Author: ii) HARTNID (before 800-). Nithard names Hartnid as his brother in his own chronicle[527].
Publication: Name: https://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/FRANKISH%20NOBILITY.htm#_ftnref504;
- Title: Nithard - Medlands - FMG
Author: NITHARD (before 800-killed in battle [against the Normans?] 15 May 845). Son of Angilbert & Bertha according to his own chronicle[524]. He and his brother were commemorated in a poem written by their father in 800[525]. Graf. He continued to live at court in Aix-la-Chapelle after his father’s death in 814. Lay-abbot of St Riquier. Historian. [m ERCHENFRIDA, daughter of ---. Heinrich Archbishop of Trier describes the boundaries of the parish of Mersch by charter dated 960, which includes details of property donations, among others that of "comite Nithado et coniuge eius Erkenfrida"[526]. As no other count Nithard has yet been identified in other sources dated to the 10th century. It is possible therefore that this source refers to a much earlier donation made by Nithard son of Angilbert.]
Publication: Name: https://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/FRANKISH%20NOBILITY.htm#_ftnref504;
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